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Daniel Barber

Pictorial mnemonics and sound contrasting yield more effective English teaching - 0 views

  • images they used linked the shapes of the alphabet letters with images of Japanese words that begin with those letters
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    Evidence for pedagogic sense in involving learners' knowledge of L1 to aid their acquisition of L2. Learners associate English letters with Japanese words as a mnemonic. Also, explicit differentiation of the two language systems' phonic systems seems to help better understanding of English in Japanese children.
Daniel Barber

Medical Xpress: Mama or dada? Research looks at what words are easiest for kids to learn - 0 views

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    Why we teach in lexical sets
Daniel Barber

The Trouble With Brain Science - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  • What we are really looking for is a bridge, some way of connecting two separate scientific languages — those of neuroscience and psychology.
  • example is the discovery of DNA
  • We know that there must be some lawful relation between assemblies of neurons and the elements of thought, but we are currently at a loss to describe those laws.
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  • as anyone in a field richer in data than theory (like weather forecasting) can tell you, amassing data is only a start
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    Essay on the limitations of neuroscience
Daniel Barber

Visual Learners Convert Words To Pictures In The Brain And Vice Versa, Says Psychology ... - 2 views

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    Some truth in learning styles? Research suggests self-described visual learners more likely to convert linguistically presented information into a visual mental representation.
Daniel Barber

Is there a universal language of sound? | David Shariatmadari | Opinion | The Guardian - 0 views

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    Evidence that "sound symbolism" extends much further than onomatopeia. Universals across languages.
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